The Hangman's Blind

<p><strong style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Archie McClure bought Belle Oak nobody wanted it. Now everyone wants it. </strong></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>He turned Belle Oak into five thousand acres of the finest rice ground in Arkansas and the best duck woods in the country.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>But Belle Oak is in trouble. Archie's grandsons Little George J.D. and Trip own McClure Tug and Tow a once thriving now failing barge company on the Mississippi. Trip's brothers want to sell Belle Oak to save the barge company but he won't hear of it. All he cares about is hunting in the flooded timber with Cash his black lab.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ceila McClure the boys' mother is caught in the middle recently widowed when her husband took his own life. She's the only one who knows why he did it except for the blackmailer.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>When Little George and J.D. put Belle Oak up for sale Trip takes matters in his own hands. His plan to keep Belle Oak spins out of control and he makes a Faustian bargain to save it.</span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The flooded timber is full of lies and treachery. The deal goes bad. His mother's secret is expensive and someone is trying to kill Trip. </span></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Can he find a way out?</span></p>